From the August 2022 Issue Drills & Spills A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Story of Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War By Keith Fisher LR
From the July 2022 Issue Full of Gas Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth By John McManus
From the May 2021 Issue Professor of Protest Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said By Timothy Brennan LR
From the October 2020 Issue It’s a Tough Neighbourhood The Origins of the Arab–Iranian Conflict: Nationalism & Sovereignty in the Gulf between the World Wars By Chelsi Mueller Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East By Kim Ghattas LR
From the February 2019 Issue Caravans & Cat Skins The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages By François-Xavier Fauvelle (Translated by Troy Tice) A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution By Toby Green
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